PROCEDURE:🔗

Students will need to listen to each other closely and listen for what's out of place in this activity. Divide students into pairs or groups and give each a unique, slightly odd secret phrase; for example, "three happy elves live in my basement." Get them to plan a dialogue that incorporates the secret phrase once or twice. When they've finished planning, let them perform the dialogue for the class. While watching, students try to guess the secret phrase and write it down accurately; they must also write how many times it was said. Give points to students who found the phrase and its repetitions. The student with the most points is the winner.